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I'm always happy to see an operating place of production so close to downtown. Even though the greedy side of me thinks this building could make cool lofts, who would want to live across the street from the IPL power plant?

This sets on part of what was Greenlawn Cemetery, which was the old city cemetery. By around 1926 the cemetery was deconsecrated and the graves were exhumed and relocated to Crown Hill (for the most part). A few years back, I talked to an older guy who'd had family buried there. He said that they'd been told if they'd pay for the relocations, their loved ones would be moved. If not, they'd just move the headstones. So there were some graves left behind. Back in 1986, they were excavating for an addition to Diamond Chain and uncovered 19th century cast iron casket.

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The content I bring to the G+ table is my photography, which is primarily focused in urban areas all over the United States, but mostly where I live in New York City. The primary goal of my photography is an attempt to derive artistic value from what most would perceive to be mundane urban minutiae. I am completely fascinated by that which is most ubiquitous and what most people just accept as their grime filled surroundings.